Thirteen-year-old Mahadev Kumar was immensely amused and even surprised to receive a chocolate from a police officer when he visited Rabale MIDC Police station in Belapur, last week along with 30 other homeless children. His only interaction with the police, before this, was when he was picked up by them and sent to a children’s home while living on the streets.

Now he has a much better understanding of the police system and understands that it exists to protect people. All thanks to the new unique initiative by the Koshish Trust, an NGO which has been working to address homelessness and destitution. The initiative aims to introduce homeless kids to different professions in society to ignite hopes and aspirations in them to come out of their circumstances.

For the first visit, a police s

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